Welcome, my name is Jochem Hummel and I am a final year PhD student at the KIN research group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

####My Research My research focuses on understanding the strategic mechanisms and practices used by organizations in complex multi-actor collaborations to pursue broad goals related to digital innovation. My first priority lies with doing highly rigorous, qualitative, empirical research. For example, my dissertation research concerns a longitudinal study of a collaboration between “big science” and "big business: called Helix Nebula, where I analyze how large scientific institutes (CERN, EMBL, ESA) collaborate with commercial cloud computing organizations (Atos, T-Systems), and public infrastructure providers (EGI, GEANT), to develop a European scientific cloud computing infrastructure.

I am a passionate qualitative researcher (case study and ethnographic methods). I typically do process research, and through my interest in micro-level dynamics I also have knowledge of practice theory. Driven by my determination for methodological rigor I have adopted digital methods for qualitative data as a complementary analysis technique.

####Research Interests Theory
Complex multi-actor collaborations, science and technology studies, organizational pluralism, organizational resourcing, framing, new ways of organizing, open innovation

Phenomena
Digital innovation, big science, science-business collaborations, platforms and ecosystems

Methods
Qualitative methods (case study and ethnographic methods), digital methods for qualitative data (topic modelling, text analysis, sequence analysis, cluster analysis)

####Teaching Interests technology and innovation, digital innovation, qualitative research methods, digital methods for qualitative data, strategic management, open and user innovation, knowledge management, business research methods, new ways of organizing